I’m working through Democracy Awakening by Heather Cox Richardson and I am crying. The absolute injustice that has occurred in America in the last several decades. I knew it was bad, but I didn’t realize the cheating in government had been going on for as long as it has. The lack of fairness in government is alarming. I was definitely the kid who cried when things weren’t fair (I understand equity vs equality, and sorta did when I was a kid). I am appalled and angry that some politicians have spend years changing the rules on everyone and cheating.
But anyway, it’s such an amazing book and I wish it could be school curriculum but it won’t ever be until Republicans aren’t able to mess with school curriculum. It airs way too many of their dirty (not so) secrets.
I've always wondered if God is a little like clay. People can shape God into what they need. Some people need a rake, some a vase, others a lamp. People who shape the same object come together as a religion, but no one’s vase has exactly the same details. No one’s rake is the same length. The stronger your belief the stronger your tool. You always can change your tool. Clay is malleable, and you can change shape. Maybe if you already fired it you need to grab more clay to make a new tool, but there is an abundance of clay for you to work with. And maybe you will keep a piece from your rake to decorate your new vase, because even changing faiths doesn’t mean you leave everything behind.
Sorta close. That’s the Tenrou island arc, and you seem to be mixing up Gray’s and Natsu’s separate fights with the time mage. Natsu never beat Ultear though. (Ultear also wasn’t able to negate Natsu’s magic but she certainly kept him from being able to hit her). Gray is the one who beat her. Ultear was also initially able to negate Gray’s ice make magic by turning his ice into water. However Gray figured out Ultear couldn’t rewind or fast forward organic organisms so he used his blood to create bloody ice and was able to beat her.
There are several times in the series that Natsu does win by saying he’ll breath more fire. Most notably (in my opinion) when he uses dragon force for the first time. It’s fair to remember that Fairy Tail is 100% the power of friendship wins the day style story so some solutions don’t exactly make sense. I always found Gray vs. Ultear to be pretty neat and help explain magic better.
Guys I think I have a false memory and I need someone who's seen fairy tail to tell me if it's a hallucination or not.
I vaguely remember natsu had to fight some girl who had a magic ball that was constantly rewinding time or something and negating his fire breathing bullshit...
And I remember that the solution didn't make sense because it was basically just natsu saying I'll just breathe even more fire...or punch it even harder??????
And I remember at the time I thought it was really fucking stupid.
Because it was brute forcing a boring solution to an interesting battle dynamic, and a classic example of an author coming up with an idea so good that he wrote himself into a corner with it???
Did something like that happen in fairy tail or did I implant a false memory in my head???
I wonder how the prevalence of revolution stories in our (United States) literature and media (hunger games, divergent, etc.) has introduced the idea that revolution is the first thing to do when a system is broken. How has that idea convinced people that rioting may be the correct thing to do (Capitol riot, George Floyd riots, etc.)?
You have to be willing to let other people be vulnerable to you to get to know them.
Things are hard right now. If something you know will make you feel better (AKA cleaning my room) but the idea of doing it exhausts you and/or makes you anxious and depressed, break it down (AKA get all the trash out of my room). Be kind to yourselves.
Sometimes all you can do is breath
There was a girl sitting on the bench
Her hair fell into her face
And covered her eyes
everyone who sat next to her asked her why
Why she let her hair mask her beauty
She answered simply
“You would drown in my eyes”
They laughed and asked her to show her face
“no” she replied every time
They taunted her, and grabbed her hair
She had long since stopped trying to stop them
When her eyes were uncovered
They stopped laughing
Her eyes held oceans beyond comprehension
Her left held a furious image
of the waters revolting
Her right held a serene scene
of the waters relaxing
They all ran before they drowned in her eyes
I watched this happen time after time
One day I sat beside her
I did not ask her to move her hair
“Why are you silent”
“I only want company”
I sat next to her everyday
We spoke of many things
But I never asked her to move her hair
And she never asked me to move mine
I sat beside her, but she looked different
Her hair was pulled back
“You won’t drown. I won’t let you”
All I did was move my own hair back
And let my night skies mix with her oceans
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and icarus said to aphrodite- so this is what i'm for. you have a distant awareness that the day you fall is the day you change. change is so very difficult, isn't it? watching everyone leave? you want the light so desperately, but you fear it. one day it will come for you. one day you will stop mourning the future and start mourning the present, and it will be peaceful.
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Don’t cry wolf when there isn’t a wolf. Even if you don’t care about your credibility, chances are you crying wolf will lower others credibility.